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I say this all the time. When it comes right down to it, the majority of blue represents big green just like their opposition.

And since you brought up the supermajority, this was trending awhile ago. They've begun to eat their own in Sacramento. I'm neither surprised nor angry. This is what happens when you let lunatics run something completely unchecked. Without some balance, it's bound to happen.

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I say this all the time. When it comes right down to it, the majority of blue represents big green just like their opposition.

And since you brought up the supermajority, this was trending awhile ago. They've begun to eat their own in Sacramento. I'm neither surprised nor angry. This is what happens when you let lunatics run something completely unchecked. Without some balance, it's bound to happen.

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You don't live in the areas where people live in squalor. Perhaps if you did you'd want the government to do something about it.

So the entirety of California is squalor? Or are you just referring to the 10 square feet in the state where there might be ankle-deep ****? Like, a farm or something?

Are my options to live in a state with a booming economy where a woman's reproductive rights are respected and on some farm there is ankle-deep **** or live in a state where the laws are decided by the cruelest interpretations of the Bible?

Hmmm...tough choice...

I also noticed the article you posted to only mentioned the companies which left CA and not the companies which started or came to CA. It's almost like it was a bull**** piece...

Are my options to live in a state with a booming economy where a woman's reproductive rights are respected and on some farm there is ankle-deep **** or live in a state where the laws are decided by the cruelest interpretations of the Bible?

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I was in San Fran the other week. Maybe don't believe everything Drudge Report or whatever tells you.

I spent about a month in San Fran over the past year, and I'm pretty sure I didn't catch the plague. It seemed fine to me, no worse than most other big cities. Nowhere near as disgusting as say, Center City Philadelphia in the summertime.

Didn't see Drudge come up in the search results for 'rat infestation los angeles', but I did see like, y'know, every major media outlet covering it. That, along with the link Spackler provided directly from LA County's public health website leads me to believe that one is very true, including the plague warning.

You're not actually confused by colorful hyperbole like 'knee-deep ****' so what's the point of you pretending it's fake news from alarmist websites? Is it really unbelievable to you that a side effect of humans living in close quarters congested cities is more than the occasional out of place poopy? Because it's not unusual. Might as well deny climate science next since it's literally attributable to the same general thing (i.e. too many people on earth).

I'm not leaving this state any time soon and like you, I tend to think these issues get overblown at times, but I don't flat out deny the existence of these things and claim that the only sources of the information are disreputable right wing websites like Drudge.

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I spent about a month in San Fran over the past year, and I'm pretty sure I didn't catch the plague. It seemed fine to me, no worse than most other big cities. Nowhere near as disgusting as say, Center City Philadelphia in the summertime.

Once more, the risk is real, albeit low, and the warnings are coming from real .gov sources. I remember thirty years ago when signs in the back country started popping up on hiking trails urging people not to touch squirrels and stuff for exactly that reason. I mean, there's this.

The obvious difference is that the city center of say, LA, has a lot more density than Yosemite, etc. and therefore an increased chance for people to be exposed and diseases to spread. Or we can just look at history if anyone is still doubtful.

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Didn't see Drudge come up in the search results for 'rat infestation los angeles', but I did see like, y'know, every major media outlet covering it. That, along with the link Spackler provided directly from LA County's public health website leads me to believe that one is very true, including the plague warning.

You're not actually confused by colorful hyperbole like 'knee-deep ****' so what's the point of you pretending it's fake news from alarmist websites? Is it really unbelievable to you that a side effect of humans living in close quarters congested cities is more than the occasional out of place poopy? Because it's not unusual. Might as well deny climate science next since it's literally attributable to the same general thing (i.e. too many people on earth).

I'm not leaving this state any time soon and like you, I tend to think these issues get overblown at times, but I don't flat out deny the existence of these things and claim that the only sources of the information are disreputable right wing websites like Drudge.